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Actors: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson
Directors: Elia Kazan
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Paramount
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
Run Time: 123 minutes
Average Customer Review:
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Reader Reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels focused on the haunted lives of American males and how they tried to recreate themselves in the image of others as successful individuals. The Last Tycoon based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's posthumous unfinished novel echos many of the themes that appeared in Fitzgerald's small body of work as a novelist and short story writer. His protagonist were always trying to be something they were not denying their past and, in the process, denying themselves Tycoon is a thinly veiled retelling of the life of movie mogul Irving Thalberg. Thalberg made an amazing slew of motion pictures during his short rein as a producer and studio head in the 30's and 40's. DeNiro's Monroe Stahr is a mysterious, haunted individual who literally lives only for the movies he's making. It seems his fascinating with the screen makes him unable to communicate with the living all around him. Playwrite Harold Pinter ( plays The Servant, The Caretakeruses and films The Handmaid's Tale, The French Lieutenant's Woman) this as a metaphor for Stahr's detachment from humanity and his inability to connect with the elusive love of his life Kathleen Moore played by Ingrid Bolting. Pinter's detached, elliptic dialog and unusual dialog rhythms only enhances the impression that Stahr is in this world but not of it. Ultimately Stahr's (ironically named given his position in the industry) intense devotion to what we see vs. what we experience through living contributes to him working himself to death. Pinter fleshes out Fitzgerald's novel (essentially a retelling of The Great Gatsby focusing on the elite of Hollywood instead) and manages faithfully translates many of the themes from the book. As directed by Hollywood and Broadway veteran Elia Kazan (On The Waterfront, East of Eden, A Streecar Named Desire), The Last Tycoon isn't an easy film to like; many of the characters seem vapid and self serving. In the character of Stahr we have a protagonist who isn't really "there" at all. Which is precisely Kazan and Pinter's point; The Last Tycoon is how image overwhelms substance but can't become a substitute for living. The brilliant casting features veterans that were contemporaries of (and in some cases worked with) Irving Thalberg. Kazan's direction brings many of these characters to life providing a unique glimpse into the Hollywood studio system at its prime. Kazan and Pinter provide a fascinating and disquieting glimpse into the American life of the glamorous and powerful of Hollywood during its heyday. It's a sad and tragic tale which Kazan manages to inject with quiet power. The transfer is very nice although there are a few analog and digital artifacts. The compression artifacts are minimal, however and probably won't be noticeable to most viewers. Although the packaging claims the sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1, it's actually presented in a stereo format and not remixed for 5.1 that I can tell. There aren't any extras provided. With the cast, writer and director involved you would expect there to be something in Paramount's vaults that could be included as an extra. There's no audio commentary. Since Kazan was alive just prior to the release of this film (September 2003), I would have thought he might have been asked to provide a commentary after all this was his last film. Additionally, it was produced by legendary independent producer Sam Spiegel with music by Maurice Jarre so from a historical perspective it's a fairly important mainstream film. The Last Tycoon was the last gasp from a generation of film makers and, as such, deserved better. While not a showcase like Kazan's earliest motion pictures (he peaked as a film director in the 50's with On The Waterfront and a handful of other classic films), The Last Tycoon manages to capture the end of an era and a tragic life in its all too brief 123 minutes with elegance and power.
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